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$93.00
Very well structured, yet restrained and elegant with a cool and delicate personality for the warm vintage, this is a...
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$89.11
6 bottles:
$87.33
Bright and vivid with a linear palate of black cherries, plums and orange peel. It’s tight and focused with a...
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$35.52
$37.39
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$33.60
If it wasn’t for the lively acidity and the violet note, you might mistake this for a sophisticated Volnay!...
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$20.33
$21.40
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$12.13
How do you improve on a classic? You smooth it out and lighten things up. And that’s exactly what we did to...
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$41.00
$43.16
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$28.01
Intense nose of toffee, coconut, spicy fruitcake and chocolate; rich and concentrated, well-integrated sweetness,...
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$22.61
$23.80
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$14.73
Deep amber in hue, Taylor Cream Sherry is a full bodied dessert wine with a medley of sweet and nutty flavors. This...
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Alex Foillard Brouilly 2016
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
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$62.90
A very fresh attack with crunchy, energetic blueberries and redcurrants, delivering a plush, supple pastry-like...
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Chateau Des Jacques Morgon Cote Du Py 2015
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
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$71.28
Deep vivid ruby. Vibrant aromas of black raspberry, cherry cola and violet pick up allspice and licorice nuances with...
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Chateau Des Jacques Moulin A Vent Le Moulin 2018
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
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$99.12
The 2018 Moulin-à-Vent Le Moulin reveals brooding aromas of dark cherries, raspberries and plums, followed by a...
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Chateau Des Jacques Moulin A Vent Le Moulin 2020
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
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$112.95
Another highpoint in this year's range is the 2020 Moulin-à-Vent Le Moulin, a deep, concentrated wine evocative of...
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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$63.29
The 2020 Côte de Brouilly Les Sept Vignes is aged in used barrels plus one or two foudres, fairly new, which gives a...
Gamay Sherry Zinfandel 1.5Ltr
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.
The precise origins of what became known as the Zinfandel grape variety are uncertain, although it has clear genetic equivalents in both Puglia and Croatia. However, when it was brought to the New World in the mid 19th century, it became known as the Zinfandel, and has been consistently popular and widely grown ever since. These very dark and very round grapes have a remarkably high sugar content, resulting in relatively high levels of alcohol in the wines they are made into, with bottles often displaying as much as fifteen percent. What makes the Zinfandel such an interesting grape, though, is the fact that the flavors produced by this varietal vary considerably depending on the climate they are grown in. In cooler valley regions, the Zinfandel grapes result in wines which hold strong flavors of tart and sweet fruits; raspberry, redcurrant and sweet cherry, held in a very smooth and silky liquid. Conversely, warmer regions result in more complex and spicy notes, including anise, pepper and hedgerow berries.